Project Delivery Scheduler

Connect Plus Services; Leatherhead, South Mimms, Dartford; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading transportation services provider is seeking a Project Coordination Specialist to support the Project Delivery team. This role involves scheduling and coordinating road space for project delivery works while working closely with various teams. Ideal candidates will be organized, possess strong IT skills, and have experience in a project environment. This position provides a unique opportunity to contribute to the M25 maintenance and operation efforts.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Inclusive workplace culture

Innovative technology exposure

Qualifications

• Ability to plan own workload efficiently.
• Confidence to learn and use new systems.
• Desirable experience of working in a project environment.
• Ability to consider customer impact when planning work.
• Experience of planning structures inspections.

Responsibilities

• Schedule and coordinate road space for project works.
• Liaise with various teams to understand the annual programme.
• Submit road space bookings using CPS NOMS system.
• Assess inspection requirements and arrange bookings.
• Participate in road space coordination meetings.
• Liaise with authorities for road closures and permissions.
• Ensure required traffic management resources are allocated.

Skills

Well organised

Strong IT skills

Experience in a project environment

Consider customer impact

Planning structures inspections

Job description

This role supports the Project Delivery team by scheduling, coordinating, and booking road space for the delivery of Project Delivery works. The post holder will work closely with various members of the CPS business to understand the programme of works and identify opportunities for sharing road space and traffic management. Where coordination is not possible, they will make road space bookings as required, ensuring compliance with CPS Road Space Booking procedures.

This role can be based at Dartford, Leatherhead, or South Mimms depot.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Work closely with the Inspections Lead, Asset team counterparts, and Inspectors to understand the annual programme of Structures and Linear Inspections.
• Liaise with Inspectors to seek opportunities to group works geographically to enable sharing of road space and traffic management costs.
• Submit road space bookings using the CPS NOMS system where sharing of road space is not possible.
• Assess inspection requirements and arrange the booking of specialist plant (e.g., MEWPs) to undertake inspections.
• Participate in road space coordination meetings, ensuring bookings are made in sufficient time and that outstanding information is provided promptly.
• Liaise with TfL and local authorities as necessary to obtain permissions for road closures and diversions.
• Ensure that all works have the required traffic management resources allocated.

Who We’re Looking For

• Well organised with the ability to plan own workload efficiently.
• Strong IT skills, including confidence to learn and use new systems.
• Experience of working in a project environment (desirable).
• Ability to consider customer impact when planning work.
• Experience of planning structures inspections.

Inspiring : Champions curiosity and continuous improvement, role modelling change and managing risks to achieve project outcomes.

Energising: Role models positive and energised project focussed attitudes towards and continuous improvement.

Challenging : seeks and advocates improvements to add value and drive continuous performance.

Challengeable : Encourage a culture of skilled challenging and seek to understand and explore challenge to enable improvement.

Influencing : Builds commitment and consensus, and role models CPS leadership behaviours to deliver our goals.

Why Work for Us?

At Connect Plus Services (CPS), you’ll be part of a world-class team maintaining and operating the M25, Europe’s busiest motorway. As a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins, and Egis, we play a vital role in keeping millions of journeys moving safely and efficiently.

A Career Like No Other

Working on the M25 offers unrivalled experience, challenges, and opportunities that no other highways project can provide. You’ll be exposed to cutting-edge technology, large-scale infrastructure, and complex engineering solutions, making every day dynamic and rewarding.

Long-Term Stability & Growth

With 15+ years remaining on this project, we offer career stability, professional development, and progression opportunities. Whether you’re looking to build new skills or take the next step in your career, we invest in your growth.

A Supportive & Inclusive Team

At CPS, your contributions matter. We foster a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative work environment where safety, innovation, and teamwork drive everything we do.

About us

CPS is a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins, and Egis.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business.

To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion.

Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ‘Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

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